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Sandra Cisneros

ad to say.Her book's The House on Mango Street and Loose Woman: Poems enthralled me the most, and gave me a sense of her genre and style. They portrayed her concentration on culture or ethninticity and gender issues. A Stanza from her poem "Loose Woman" really tickled my fancy and is an excellent representation of these two themes:"They say I'm macha, hell on wheels, viva-la-vulva, fire and brimstone,man-hating, devastating,boogey-woman lesbian.Not necessarily,but I like the compliment." ( 112)In this poem Cisneros displays a common stereotype of women in a satirical way that is easy to identify with, and in a sense empowers women rather than degrading them. In doing this, she keeps her cultural heritage by using both English, and her own native language, Spanish to define her views. She maintains this sort of style throughout her poems and pursues gender issues and cultural identity with ferocious vitality and purpose. Although she does not use written Spanish in The house on Mango Street, her characters are Mexican and represent the culture in their lifestyles, views, and upbringing. The story depicts the coming of age of a girl named Esperanza, who is searching for stability and a place for herself in the world. Cisneros explores the life of a Mexican girl and the things that shaped her morality and sense of who she was and what she does or does not want out of life. She portrays the constraints of female Mexican children and their rites of passage into adult hood masterfully in this book. The story is filled with emotions of laughter, outrage, loneliness, sadness and true pure reality. It not only portrays the life of a child growing up in a culture different from her own, but also portrays the general life of all children. This defining of specific conditions that are both precisely Latina and general to women everywhere is what makes Cisneros original and highly praised by the critics. They say that, "her feminist, Mexic...

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